justhavingfun

We actually had your plane up at Skydive Sussex, NJ this past weekend. We've hijacked the plane and kidnapped the pilot. Just kidding... we had a blast! Tell Crow he can come back any time, and to bring the plane with him

Watch Olav in 'Crosswind'. That is an awesome video, I must have seen that about 100 times...

Hi VSG! To answer some of your questions. I went with a friend of mine to a dz, she went to do a tandem, I went as a spectator, there was no way I would jump out of a plane. A couple of years later I went for a tandem just to say I've done it. Got to the ground, signed up for the AFF class!!! I met my boyfriend around the same time, but we didn't start dating untill months later, we were really good friends though, so yes, this is something I wanted to do for myself. We jump independently from each other, he's fortunate to be at the dz more than me because of work, so he's usually always there when I am. Right now I am really loving learning to freefly, but who knows, after a few hundred jumps I might try some freestyle, that is something I am really interested in too, so yes, I will definately pursue whatever makes me happy in skydiving. I did my first sitfly try around 38 jumps, and I am slowed down and stable on my belly at pull time! Good luck with you too, this is such a great sport with such great energy, and great people, I love it! If we meet someday we should definately go fly together, belly, freefly, its all in good fun!!

Thank you! Its good to know there are people on you side. PS: I love the dark side...lol

Thank you. I was told to flat fly to learn the dicipline, but freeflying is a dicipline too, ... and I'm having a blast!!

Thank you! And yes, my rig is freefly friendly and his cousin, who is also a very good friend of mine, is my rigger.

Hi everyone, I’m pretty new to this forum, but I have a question that’s been bothering me and I would just really like someone else’s opinion on this matter. Is there a specific number of jumps required before you start learning to freefly? I am a girl with in the 60 jumps and was given a hard time by someone with 1300 jumps, not an instructor or anything, for learning how to freefly. Now isn’t this sport supposed to be all about being safe and having fun? My boyfriend is a freeflyer with about 1300 jumps and according to his friends, who have been jumping with him for years, is a great freeflyer. I want to jump with him, so therefore he is teaching me to freefly. I have about 40 jumps with him, most of them sit flying, and he’s been coaching me on every jump, and according to him and his friends, I am progressing faster than the average guy, which is fine with me, but I don’t really care about that, I’m just having fun. Skydiving is such a humbling experience, it’s not about how good you are or what you can do. We eat sleep and drink skydiving, watch video after video, talk about what’s safe, how to be the safest you can be on every jump. He is one of the safest people that I know, skydiving or not skydiving, and would never put me in any situation that would put me in danger, it is just not worth it, there is so much that we have to live for, we want to get married, have kids, hopefully teach them how to skydive one day. I am very stable and slowed down by pull time, and I am just having fun with the person I love. I see people with low number of jumps doing things that they are not supposed to be doing, I don’t see anyone giving them a hard time. We don’t judge anybody or criticize anyone, we just go to the dropzone to jump and to have fun with each other and our friends, what is so wrong with that?